JAPANESE PLUNDER TEMPLES
NEW YORK, February 9
Japanese forces have removed priceless national treasures from Burma’s highest Buddhist temple. U. Bagley, a member of the board of trustees of the Sino-Burmese Cultural Association, announced in Chungking that among the treasures was a solid gold disc'., 25ft in diameter, placed near the top of the pagoda centuries ago. It -was surrounded with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and pearls so numerous that the monks never counted them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1944, Page 6
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